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"memory takes a lot of poetic license. it omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart." :tennessee williams, "the glass menagerie"

7.22.2013

“Mother and Child”

Such a lofty subject seemed out of place

Among staid and simple folk.

Certainly your face gave nothing away

As you handed it over.

A pen and ink icon of mother and child,

Copied from an old book cover.

I didn’t see it at first

But her quick glance, and the tears starting

Gave me pause. I looked again

And recognized suddenly the dark, dark circles

You’d put around her eyes
(I knew them well)

And the child’s outstretched hand.

Not out of place after all, in that house

Of all houses. When we drove away

I watched the same sad eyes

Staring out the window at the long, long road

Still weeping, still rent apart,

Pondering all these things deep in her heart.

posted by ethan # 7/22/2013 05:15:00 PM

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